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The study was to determine foreign students’ experience in Ghanaian tertiary institutions with the primary objectives of empirically; Determining the demographic characteristics of foreign students in Ghana Determining how their overall perception and attitude influence their behavioural intentions. Data was collected from a total of 351 students selected purposely from six tertiary institutions in Ghana using questionnaire. The results of the study indicate that Ghana is an emerging...
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Introduction: Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has improved survival of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patients. Concurrent morbidities from liver diseases among these patients have also been observed due to co-infection with hepatitis B and C viruses (HBV and HCV). HAART reduces liver-associated morbidities and mortalities in such patients. Unfortunately free testing of HBV and HCV are not provided alongside free HIV testing and treatment in Nigeria. We assessed the...
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Background: Needle stick injuries represent one of the most important occupational hazards to which health workers are exposed. These injuries result from accidental piercing of the skin and or mucous membranes by sharp objects. Needle stick injuries carry the risk of exposure to blood-borne pathogens, especially hepatitis B (HBV), hepatitis C (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Objective: To determine the prevalence of needle stick injuries amongst health care workers in Imo State...
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Animal production plays a crucial role in the economy of West African countries. However, in the context of climate change, the scarcity of water resources due to drought and high spatio-temporal variability of precipitations, influences considerably pastoral activities. This has driven conflicts among herders in most arid and semi-arid areas especially in the Fourth Transhumance Corridor of ECOWAS (Economic Community of West-African States). The study investigates the adaptation strategies...
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Schistosomiaisis, commonly referred to as bilharzia is a neglected tropical parasitic water borne disease prevalent in developing countries and is endemic in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The World Health Organisation (WHO) aims to eliminate bilharzia as a public health problem by the year 2020 and as a measure to work towards this goal, the South African Department of Health (DoH) Ugu District, KwaZulu-Natal commenced a Mass Treatment Campaign (MTC) targeted at rural schools to decrease...
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Although access to higher education continues to be crucial for developing countries, higher education remains a corps of excellence with selectivity as one of its operational dynamics. Even if higher education were to be fully massified everywhere, some of its functions and objectives would remain elitist and more strategic and may often require very tough choices on the part of administrators and managers of higher education. This situation suggests the inevitability of differential...
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Educational system, especially in the developing nations is undergoing fast and tremendous changes.The need for Climate Change Education in the School System cannot be over-emphasized as it is for everyone; such knowledge goes a long way in rationalizing the behavior of individuals throughout their lifetime.Students should be motivated to learn about climate change, and be helped to make links between the various subjects around the issue of the environment of which, obviously, climate...
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A descriptive research with quantitative approach examined human capital in Non-profit organisations with three objectives: to ascertain the qualifications and skills essential in the non-profit sector; to determine if Non-profit organisations provide training and education support for its workforce and to describe formal education level of NPO workforce in South Africa. The study population were employees of Non-Profit organisation (NPO’s) operating in Cape Town. In order to evaluate human...
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The review opens with an examination of the central theme and aim of the handbook, namely, that because most African countries have long been dominated by Eurocentric educational views and practices, an African perspective has been largely neglected in both research and practice. The book's aim is to begin to correct this. Many chapters contribute substantively to this aim through practical curricular suggestions based on grounded research in specific cultural communities. Within the nine...
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Mass public commemoration of war dead in Britain is often held to be a twentieth-century phenomenon, with its genesis in the Great War. However, the war memorial movement in the aftermath of the South African War (1899-1902) foreshadowed that of the Great War and acted as a blueprint for later commemorative activity. At the forefront of this movement were the nation's great public schools. The memorialization process provided these institutions with the opportunity to mold the memory of...
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Bamenda town is situated on the North Northwest slope of the Bamenda Volcano (2621m) which is a stratovolcano situated along the Cameroon Volcanic Line precisely between Mount Bambouto (2740m) and Mount Oku (3011m). The general morphology shows the presence of an escarpment of about 150m high, which separates Bamenda town into Up Station and Down Town areas. Rapid population increase in the town of Bamenda (500,000 inhabitants) has pushed the inhabitants to settle along the slopes of the...
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The purpose of this study is to understand parents’ perception of the value of education, and the level of parents’ involvement in their children’s education. The study was guided by preparing and using semi-structured, informal, and focus group interviews as well as documents (written reports, memoranda, meeting notes) that describe parental values of education; reviewing pertinent literature on parent values of education, identifying and summarizing concepts that help explain factors...
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This study examines how and why peoples of African descent access and utilize community-based pedagogical spaces that exist outside schools. Employing a theoretical framework that fuses historical methodology and border-crossing theory, the researchers review existing scholarship and primary documents to present an historical examination of how peoples of African descent have fought for and redefined education in nonschool educative venues. These findings inform the authors’ analysis of...